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To George Busk, Linnean Society1 30 March [1858]2

Down Bromley Kent

March 30th

Dear Sir

I can have no hesitation in expressing my strong opinion that the whole of Mr. Huxley’s admirable paper on the Agamic Reproduction & Embryology of Aphis, together with all the illustrations, ought to be published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society.3

Footnotes

Thomas Henry Huxley had read the first part of a paper on parthenogenesis in aphids at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 5 November 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to T. H. Huxley, [before 12 November 1857]). The second part, a detailed anatomical study of embryogenesis in aphids, had been read at a meeting on 21 January 1858. The paper was published in the society’s Transactions (T. H. Huxley 1858).